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Re: what to do about subdomains?

2004-01-09 00:19:20
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:41:09PM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
| | I just realized that, while I have an SPF record for 
| | gladstonefamily.net, there is nothing to stop somebody from sending mail 
| | from foo.gladstonefamily.net as the sending domain. This particular 
| | domain does not exist. Alternatively, somebody could use a name that 
| | does exist in my domain.
| | 
| | What should I do? Does every single entry in the domain need an SPF 
| | record, including a wildcard? This could be a configuration nightmare.
| 
| You only need SPF accompaniment for entries that have A or MX records.
| 
| In an ideal world, you'd only need them for MX entries, but the
| "implicit-MX" rule has been grandfathered for so long that it's still
| possible for a spammer to joe-job your laptop.
| 

Hmm.  Maybe we can get around this by saying that if a domain has A but
no MX, we can produce an implicit SPF record that is just "v=spf1 a -all".

thoughts?


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